Popular music may be reflecting a growing culture of vices, according to new research from the Center for Digital Music at ...

The format is built on the Global Cue Sheet Standard 2.0 and turns that standard into a practical, implementation-ready tool ...

Music is a universal yet diverse cultural trait transmitted between generations. The extent to which global musical diversity traces cultural and demographic history, however, is unresolved. Using a ...

Music has played a significant role in society and culture throughout human history. Our ancestors began producing music in a way that mimics natural sounds for religious and entertainment activities.

Can we quantify different features of music? Apparently yes; folks at Spotify have identified and measured songs’ features like danceability, accoustiness, valence, energy, pitchiness, and more. In ...

As seen on diginomica passim, the music industry has a complicated relationship with data and AI. While there’s justifiable concern that emerging technology can be used to shortcut the creative ...

A geo-environmental scientist from Japan has composed a string quartet using sonified climate data. The 6-minute-long composition—titled "String Quartet No. 1 "Polar Energy Budget"—is based on over 30 ...

BuzzAngle, the analytics company that has impacted the music business in recent years with daily and weekly charts and other public and private data, is being relaunched as Alpha Data, with a ...